Chemistry

Discover a curated list of renowned celebrities who have made significant contributions to the field of Chemistry. From Nobel laureates to pioneering researchers, explore their fascinating journeys and the impact they have had on scientific advancements.

Leopold Ruzicka

Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1939 (together with A. Butenandt).

Theodore William Richards

Chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1914

Ukrainian Soviet analytical chemist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1957), honored scientist of the Ukrainian SSR (1966).

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

British biochemist

Alexander Classen

German chemist.

Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry "for their development of the theory of chemical reactions" together with Roald Hofmann.

Australian organic chemist

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1963 (together with K. Ziegler).

Soviet atomic spy in the USA

Russian, then German chemist of Latvian origin

Frederick Soddy

English radiochemist, Nobel Prize laureate

German chemical engineer, professor of chemical engineering

Bernard Vonnegut

American meteorologist and chemist, professor of meteorology, inventor

William Hyde Wollaston

English chemist and physicist, scientist of the Royal Society of London

German organic chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry (1979, together with G. C. Brown).

English chemist

Stephanie Kwolek

American chemist, inventor of polyparaphenylene terephthalamide

Elias James Corey

American organic chemist

Claude Louis Berthollet

French chemist.

Outstanding American physical chemist.

American inventor

Martin Hans Boye

Danish-American chemist

Nikolay Kachalov

Chemical engineer, specialist in optical glass

Soviet scientist-chemist, physical chemist, biologist

Mirza Allahverdev

Azerbaijani scientist, Doctor of Chemical Sciences.

Estonian and Soviet chemist, Doctor of Chemical Sciences

Charles Adolphe Wurtz

English chemist and physicist

Robert Robinson

Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1947

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1963 (together with D. Natta).

American scientist

Chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1948.

Hermann Staudinger

German chemist, awarded the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Leo Hendrik Baekeland

American chemist and inventor

Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician of the International Academy of Higher Education Sciences

Jean-Baptiste Andre Dumas

French organic chemist and statesman.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1967 (jointly with R. Norrish and D. Porter).

British chemist

Egyptian-American chemist, winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Richard F. W. Bader

Canadian quantum chemist

Russian chemist

Alexander Ginsberg

Russian chemist, pharmacist, teacher, professor

Spanish perfumer and writer

Artury Wirtanen

Valeriy Antonovich

Ukrainian chemist

Dudley Robert Herschbach

Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1986 (together with Y. T. Li and D. Polanyi).